Example sentences of "by [v-ing] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Toothed whales usually travel in pods and hunt fish and quid by pursuing them at high speed .
2 I bloody well ca n't achieve that by sticking them in dull concrete abortions !
3 Like the frottole they were music for a wide public and , as with the frottole , the printing-presses multiplied their popularity by producing them in alternative forms .
4 Now you know the rules , set a good example to other drivers by using them at all times ; who knows , they may even copy your driving style and do it right too !
5 These individual ‘ building blocks ’ are called phonemes , or in some instances allophones , and by using them in various combinations any word can be constructed .
6 More often , two or more rhythms are used to give not only a more varied rhythmic interest but also a bigger canvas by using first one rhythm , then another , or by using them in various combinations and expansions .
7 The children were being encouraged to learn about sentences by using them in real contexts .
8 Even the attempted revisions of the discipline associated with the Scrutiny programme have failed due to its lack of positive practical goals : " False ideals are not destroyed merely by seeing through their linguistic dress , but by opposing them with stronger and better ones . "
9 ‘ I want to test one set of certainties by opposing them to another .
10 These three contrasting ways of approaching the same data can be conveniently illustrated by applying them to that contemporary social phenomenon : student unrest .
11 ended Ushaw recent good run by defeating them by 63 runs .
12 To give them the right to vote by absorbing them into one of the English constituencies and it could have easily been done .
13 The idea , of course is not to elucidate dependent conditionals by relating them to causal statements and the like , but to do just the opposite .
14 Drain and refresh immediately by steeping them in cold water .
15 It tackles this small set of problems and issues by addressing them in two localities — the old port of North Shields and the new town of Cramlington .
16 It will be best to distribute the strings evenly throughout the texture by writing them in extended harmony ( with occasional double-stops when these are easily manageable ) .
17 The key to the process was the catalytic combination of pure sulphur dioxide and oxygen gases , achieved by passing them over platinized pumice .
18 But what I set out to do was to show the idiocy of his ideas by bouncing them against other ideas , some of them perhaps equally extreme and absurd .
19 Because all shareholders will benefit if performance improves ( either through Usurping present management or by frightening them into improved performance ) , why should any rational individual be the one to incur the costs ; why not leave it to someone else ?
20 TIP : Test unknown materials by soaking them for several days .
21 tone your breasts by spraying them with alternate bursts of warm and cold water then smooth on lots of body lotion to keep them looking their best .
22 He was at times ordered to aid and supervise the royal huntsmen by leading them to those parts of the forest where the game was most plentiful , o supplying them with trained hounds , and seeing that they did not drive the deer out of the forest or continue their hunting longer than their instructions warranted .
23 They claimed that Philip III of France , his court and his officers had recently ( a modico tempore ) hindered and troubled them by citing them before other courts — not only the Paris Parlement , but the court of the French seneschal of Périgord .
24 In music of this century , composers have cultivated melodic ‘ growth ’ by choosing a specific group of notes , and then , by presenting them in different orders or different rhythmic shapes , created melody which proliferates from what may be only a very limited stock of initial material .
25 SFA 's rules relating to futures follow this tenet by application of the relevant rules only to circumstances where they are required , for example by limiting them to private investors , to contingent liability transactions or to margined transactions .
26 They were arguing about whose fingernails were longest , thinnest and sharpest and thought that the only way to see would be by testing them on each other 's bony arms .
27 The society is also urging the Association of Chief Police Officers to improve records of horse thefts by marking them as such , rather than just as thefts of livestock .
28 The government also proposed a new media policy , giving the television service , Doordarshan , and All-India Radio autonomy by turning them into public corporations , similar to the status enjoyed in the United Kingdom by the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) .
29 The same study reports pickets laying traps for tappers by directing them to wrong venues ( Coulter , Miller , and Walker , 1984 : 46 ) Although telephone-tapping during the miners ' strike was relatively well publicized , it is allegedly by no means a new phenomenon in the policing of industrial disputes .
30 In the years 1980–1 and 1981–2 , however , some local authorities have helped their local institutions to bridge the gap between their budgets and pool allocations by funding them from additional rate-borne expenditure .
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